Chap. 2$. a et Expofition etpon the Book of J o a. Verf. zS. 32 t divided the waters whichwere tender thefirmament from the waters which were above thefirmament, Bend it was°fo, The word rendered firmament, in the Hebrew lignifies an expanfion,or a thing Spread out and extended like a tent or Curtain ; and fo chafe higher heavens where the flares are fixed or move, are called the FL, (at leali in vulgar fenfe) above which there is no water; but the firmament there fpoken of byMotes, is the out-fpread ayr from the earth to the cloudes, in which as in great heavenly veffels, upperiwaters, or waters above the firmament, are con- tained, as the lower waters,, or waters under the firmament arc t,ontained and kept in earthly veffels,or channels of the earth. Heweigberb the waters brmeafsere. A meafure ismoll proper forwater ; but to weigh waters by meafure, may feem improper. Numbers are told or reckoned Heavy things are poyfed or weighed, and liquids are commonly meafured. But Job afcribes both weight andmeaCure to the wa- ters. Ile w,;igketb thewaters by meaftere. Weme urt things of tvro.forts;firll,fnch aslre of a continued quantity; Thus we mea- lure lands and houles and cloth of all forts. Secondly,fnch things as are of tdifcreerquantity and bodies aggregated, thus w: mea- luregrain and feedes of all forts, and thus we meafurewater and all forts of liquids. Time alfo bath a kind of meafure and So it isexprefyed in t he 7thChapter of thisbook at the 4th verfe;where Sobbemoaning his telliefs condicion,fpeaks thus; when 11ye down, ! fal,when (hall 1 strife, and the night be gone ? The Hebrew is (aswe put in the Margin) when will the evening be meafored? To weigh any thing,implyes anexaa obfervation of i :;and tomea- fure any thing, implyes an exact obfervation of it ;But when both tfrefe are joyned,as here God is faid both to weigh and meafure the waters, or to weigh them by meafure,this implyes the utmoll imeginable exacgners, yea in this thing an unimaginable and un- conceivable ex* kneCs, ofeb;ervation. Hence Note ; The waters are in the hand and power of Geol. Ht keeps as aria a hand and *March over them in all their mo- tions, as if he weighed them to a grain, and meafuted them to a drop. The winds and the waters are very unruly, creatures ; T t yet
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